Here is the view from my hotel balcony in Chincoteague this past weekend.

Lovely, no?

SoXperience 2012 was great fun and a great success (well, as far as I am concerned — you’d have to ask the students as well). But I was very happy to get home Sunday, and Miss Lucy was very happy to have her momma back where she belongs.

I finished my green shawlette on Saturday. Here it is, laid out flat on the floor:

This was knit from one skein of Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the “Jade” colorway using a U.S. size 3 (3.25mm) needle. It was knit sideways, starting with very few stitches and increasing until the depth was what I wanted. Then for the center section I worked short rows to give the piece a nice curve in the middle. It features a simple lace edging that is knit as you work the body, so there is no picking up of stitches later.

Because of this shaping, it sits nicely on the shoulders and does not slip off. The shawlette measures 50″ unstretched across the top and stretches well beyond 60 inches. I did not block the body of the piece because I wanted to keep the garter stitch as-is. It drapes so nicely and molds itself to the wearer. I just steamed out the edging a bit with a steam iron.

The pattern will be available soon.

But not immediately.

I had started another sideways shawlette to take with me to Cincoteague because I knew I’d be finishing the green one while I was away. But after finishing, I decided I wanted to knit the same pattern again with a different weight yarn, so I ripped out the new shawl, and started the same pattern over again:

For this one I’m using Madelinetosh Pashmina, in the “Bark” colorway, and a U.S. size 5 needle. Pashmina is sportweight (and a heavy sportweight, I think). A skein of Tosh Sock is about 400 yards and a skein of Pashmina is 360 yards. I think the Pashmina shawlette will end up to be about the same size as the Tosh Sock version (lower yardage but heavier yarn). I’ll find out soon.

Both of these versions will be on the pattern once I write it up. I am knitting these wraps by weight of the yarn and will describe how to do that in the pattern so the knitter can use up every bit of the skein, but there will also be instructions to knit by number of rows and repeats.

Now I need to come up with a name for the design. Lucy is giving this problem some serious thought.

While it is a sideways knit garter stitch piece, it is not ruffled and it is not Kauni.

This is MadelineTosh Tosh Sock in the Jade colorway. Yes, in a surprise move, I am knitting with green yarn.

Honestly compels me to confess that I chose this particular yarn from the stash because it was already wound into a ball. I’m happy that I did — it’s very pretty and is working up nicely.

So this is a little shawlette, knit sideways, with a lace edging and some shaping in the body of the piece achieved with short rows. (I had to get my short rows in there somewhere.)

I will likely have it completed the next time I blog. There will be no blog post on Sunday. I’m going down to Chincoteague Island for the weekend for Carodan Farm’s SoXperience. So I’ll be back on the blog on Tuesday.

Please note that moments before I snapped this photo, Miss Lucy was stretched out on the scarf. She got bored and wandered off so I took the opportunity to get a cat-free shot. Or two.

I knit this from one 130-gram skein of Kauni Effektgarn in the EQ colorway, using a U.S. size 3 (3.25mm) needle. This is how much yarn I had left over:

I love being able to use almost every last bit of a skein of yarn.

The pattern for this scarf, “Double FunScarf,” is now available for sale in my Ravelry store, and for the remainder of the month of April, you can purchase it for the low low price of $2.00. On May 1 I will hike the pattern price to $3.50.

This scarf is quite easy to knit in garter stitch with short-row ruffles on both sides. While mine was knit with fingering weight wool, you could use any weight up to a light DK weight. (Anything heavier will give you very stiff ruffles!)

Knit as written and lightly steam blocked, this garter stitch scarf measures 8” across and 70” long, but you can make it any width and length you like. The pattern explains how to modify the size. And you can knit the scarf to use up your entire skein of yarn — just knit until you run out.

Fold it in half lengthwise before wrapping around your neck.

Or not.

You can roll it up in a ball and just look at it.

My new work in progress is not knit from Kauni yarn and is not ruffled. Are you shocked?

2018 Completed Work

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